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Explore our world at the University of Iowa Museum of Natural History- Iowa’s gateway to the global environment for over 150 years. Walk through 500 million years of our natural and cultural heritage, culminating in the landscape we see today and how it affects the story of agriculture. Discover the adaptation and diversity of birds and mammals around the planet.

About Museum of Natural History

Explore our world at the University of Iowa Museum of Natural History- Iowa’s gateway to the global environment for over 150 years. Walk through 500 million years of our natural and cultural heritage, culminating in the landscape we see today and how it affects the story of agriculture. Discover the adaptation and diversity of birds and mammals around the planet.

I took my friend's children (6, 8, 10 & 12 years old) to visit the museum before summer ended. We were all surprised at the variety of animals, birds and history on display! What a nice (and free) museum for such a small city. The...More

The museum is a great place that we have visited for decades; this is the kind of place were generations of families can visit over the years. My spouse went as a kid and we took our kids. There is range of exhibits from traditional...More

The museum is very interesting. A lot of information on how Iowa was formed geographically. There are many life size depictions of people and their lifestyles in those days. Some very big animals also exist in the Museum.

I owe a great debt of gratitude to this museum, which helped foster a lifelong passion for Natural History, and for these sorts of museums.I frequented it regularly as a child in the 1960's. I now live a few blocks away from the American Museum...More

there are three flours...in one of the floors you will learn about American history and native Americans; statues and explanation...one floor is dedicated to all birds so lovely...another one is made by students and professors also animals...it's nice to see...

I'll start with the fact that's it's free, and pretty interesting to a 20 month old! It's very.... dated. Had a cabinet of curiosities feel to it, and while we were there we didn't see a single employee or volunteer. Old building, big building.... bet...More